The void, Time Lords and saving people.
Chapter six
Disclaimer sadly oh and enjoy! Just a note, I'm starting with the Doctor point of view-ish just after the call dropped. and since this has taken so long to write and this is the longest chapter so far, I'll put the rest of the planed scene in the next chapter.
Once the sound of the death ray cut off, the Doctor stopped shouting to the phone, his breathing stopped, everyone els in the room was silent, all of them to shocked and just a little bit scared of the alien in the room. The Time Lord stared hopelessly at the large screen on the mobile base wall, his arm with the phone falling to his side, the screen showed where the Sontaran ship was, when the little red dot on the radar went out, he closed his eyes tightly and bowed his head, his jaw clenched and hands balled into fists, the phone braking from the pressure, forcefully having to stop him self from lashing out at the closest thing. When he opened his eyes, they were cold and hard, wiping out any tiny glimmer of hope there was in them that he had finally found someone so he wouldn't have to be so alone in the universe, but of course not, that was just to much to ask for.
Still not talking, the Doctor walked to the door of the mobile base.
"Doctor, wait, what about Dr Jones," the said carefully.
"It's a clone, burn it," he spat, not turning round and continued on his way out.
Once out in the gas filled air, he walked straight in to the factory, bringing out his sonic to scan and trace any Sontaran technology still in the building. He followed his sonic all the way to the basement of the building, the link with the TARDIS in his head also getting brighter and he guessed that's where the mystery Time Lady sent the old girl. The Doctor came up to white double doors and pushed them open, once in the room behind them, he instantly spotted his beloved ship and quickly moved towards it, stroking it's side lightly.
"Doctor," he heard behind him and turned to see Martha still lying on the clone link harness.
"Little help?" She asked shrugging, showing the chains on her wrists.
"Oh" he said, walking over to her and sonicing the bonds, "I'm so sorry Martha."
"It's ok," she paused and said "I guess you already took care of the other one."
"Yeah, oh" he said, slipping a hand in to his pocket and grabbing the ring he took off the clone and holding it up in front of her face, "I believe this belongs to you."
Martha grinned as took it and slipped it on, "thank you Doctor."
She hugged him round the neck as he lifted her off the harness "any time Martha Jones" he replied when they both let go, the Doctor slipped off his coat and handed it to her "come on," he said nodding to the TARDIS, "one last trip, just to finish off."
She really shouldn't go, she had things to do and people to help and quite a few other things but she couldn't, even though she had long since gotten over her crush on the Doctor, he was still her friend and she recognised something, in his eyes, just something, a little glimmer of even more hopelessness, that he had failed someone very important or close to him. She had seen something like it after the Master had died, but more suppressed, probably trying to hide it as best he could, but she could just see it and she knew she couldn't leave, yeah, he had Donna now but having another friends with you can't be the worst thing to have with you when something happened.
"Yeah, alright, might as well see this to the end," Martha said with a little smile
He force a grin on his face and turned towards the TARDIS, unlocking it with his key and holding it open for Martha to go in first. He let the door shut but not lock, turning back to the cloning machine the Sontarans had used, any of that technology in human hands would be catastrophic for their future, he had to make sure no one could use any of it. With his sonic, he set the liquid in the tub thing on fire, it was surprisingly flammable and burned away completely, using the sonic again to blow up the equipment, rendering it unusable.
Once that done, he walked back to his ship and walked in to see Donna sitting in the jump seat holding her head and Martha crouching slightly in front of the ginger.
Said red head looked up at him with a scowl "Oi spaceman, next time you get the bright idea of sending me to the TARDIS with another flipping alien, forget it!" She yelled.
"I-I had to, why? What happened?" He asked walking over to his companion.
"The gas mask girl, She hit me! twice!"
"She said you were alright, just unconscious."
"She made me unconscious, dumbo!" Donna yelled angrily.
"Why would she do that?" The Doctor asked confused.
"Oh all I wanted to do was go with her on the Sontaran ship, you told me to keep an eye on her and them she does..." She trailed off at his expression.
His face was blank and slightly paler, his eyes were wide and fixed on Donna with a mix of fear and sadness, you could could basically see the what ifs going through his head.
"Doctor? Are you alright?" Martha asked walking over to him carefully and putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.
A second later he snapped out of his thoughts "what? Yeah, I'm alright, I'm always alright," he said, ignoring the unconvinced looks from the two women, he moved to the console, putting in the coordinates for the Rattigan Academy, "now, just one more thing to do then we can call it a day, right! Allons-y!" He yelled, with faked excitement and flicked the final switch, sending the time rotor up and down and the familiar wheezing noise filling the console room.
Once they landed, the Doctor walked straight out the doors, anger already rising, the two women following cautiously. The TARDIS had landed in the room with the teleport cube, also in there was a very angry-looking Rattigan prat pointing a gun at them.
"You! You've destroyed every thing! I was going to rid the world of humans! My one chance at a-" he yelled at them but was cut off when the Doctor snapped and grabbed the gun.
As he advanced on the boy, he hid the weapon behind him and slipped the bullets out, putting them in his pocket. Once Luke's back hit the side of the teleport cube, the Doctors gun-free hand went to the boys shirt, griping it and slid him up the cube till he was eye level with the time lord, he pressed the empty gun to the boy's temple, stopping any noise from his open mouth. Martha was the only other person that knew that it was a bluff and had to grab the horrified Donna by the arm to stop her interferences, pulling her back and whispered in her ear, although they both knew, the still shared a concerned look between them. Rattigan missed this thankfully and was understandably concentrating more on the person with a gun pressed to his skull.
"You know, I've met despicable people in my life, some that I dare say make my self look good, but you." He said in a deadly calm tone "you just had to out do them all, didn't ya, knowingly help to destroy your own species and getting angry when some one stopped you, what were the Sontarans promising you that was worth six billion lives, worth her life."
"Castor Thirty Six, a planet, for my students and I to start new, a society were we won't be mocked and excluded for our cleverness," the prat said back, fear in his voice.
"Well that sounds absolutely brilliant but there is no Castor Thirty Six, they lied to you, playing on your desperation and humanness to control you," he trailed off sombrely, releasing the boy and lowering the gun, anger dispersing but not leaving completely, "and it killed her."
The Doctor glared at the ground for a minuet before he frowned slightly and ran towards the labs without another word. Martha and Donna quickly followed after him, Luke went as well though reluctantly, when the three humans got to said lab, the Doctor was running around grabbing bits of things and building a cannon like thing on one of the desks.
Noticing their arrival, he began to talk "she told me what I had to do, intentional or not she told me what I had to do, I just wasn't listening, the gas, its Caesofine concentrate, clone feed, part Bosteen, part Probic five as well as other stuff but point is, it's extremely volatile, one spark will set it off," he babbled at lightning speed.
"What, like set fire to the atmosphere?" Martha asked.
"Yeah, they need all this gas intact here in the atmosphere to breed their clone army, and all the time we had Luke here in his dream factory, planning his little trip," he said and pointedly looked at the idiot in question, who looked down.
"So how is that thing suppose to help?" Donna asked, just a little stunned by his rapid emotional change.
"Well, it's quite rare to find a planet with exactly the same atmosphere as earth, so you need an atmosphere converter exactly like this one so humans can live and breath the air," he said and picked up the contraption and ran outside with it, the other three following.
Once he was outside the academy, the Doctor set the converter down and started to play around with large button thing attached to it.
"That's London, you can't even see it. My family's in there," Donna said to her self.
"If I can get this on the right setting," he muttered, still messing with it.
"Doctor, hold on. You said the atmosphere would ignite," Martha said concerned.
"Yeah, I did, didn't I?" He said back and activated the atmospheric converter.
An energy pulse came out of the thing and flew into the gas clouds. There was a loud boom and the Doctor crossed his fingers as the fireball spreads in the upper atmosphere.
"Please, please, please, please, please, please, please," he muttered to him self as all four if them watched the fire filled sky.
As the flames cleared to clear sky, the Doctor let out the breath he was holding and sagged in relief.
"He's a genius," Luke said in awe, still looking up at the sky.
"Just brilliant," she said grinning.
The time Lord just smirked a touch arrogantly and slung his arms around the shoulders of his current and past companions.
"Well then, come on you two, back to the TARDIS, oh and Martha, you left some clothes in your old room that you might want back and so" he tried, gesturing at the hospital nightie thing she was wearing, "yeah." he finished awkwardly.
Martha laughed a little at his awkwardness, ducking out from under his arm and walked back towards the academy, "come on then, Time Lord!" She called over her shoulder.
He smirked at his retreating friend but frowned when he noticed how quiet Donna was being and looked over to see her staring at him with a concerned look. Just as he opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong, she snapped out of it , shaking her head, and ducked out from under his arm and walked off.
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Rose's TARDIS shook slightly as they landed hopefully in Cardiff. As she walked out the doors mask free and hood down, she saw that the sky was dark and thankfully gas free, she had set it for the night after the Sontaran incident, whether or not that actually happened is another matter, she really hadn't had much practice at flying him time wise. Next she noticed she had come out in Cardiff, in exactly the same spot as the Doctors was when they dealt with the Margret the Sliteen.
It must of been quite late because the was hardly any one around, the random few that was, were ether drunk or trying to get out of here to fast to notice, so no one actually saw the short black haired Time lady walk out of no where.
Perfect.
Rose double clicked and the doors closed, no evidenced of the time ship ever being there and ambled off. After about five minuets of aimless wandering, she came across a bar and walked in, the bar was almost empty and it looked a little grubby but she went in and sat at the main bar and, deciding to try her northern ascent, ordered two shots of vodka from the short burnet behind the bar.
"Make that four shots and put it on my tab for me beautiful," came the familiar, flirty American voice from behind Rose that made her freeze.
Yes, the Bad Wolf and her TARDIS had shown her what had happened and what she had done at the game station but it was still a shock to actually see it.
Covering all shock with a smirk and a arched eyebrow, she turned towards the incredibly hansom Captain Jack Harkness "oh so I'm not allowed to by my own drink?" She asked, still using the ascent.
With a laugh, the ex time agent replied "a gorgeous northerner like you? Never, it would be a crime," he said as he sat on the bar stool next to her and put an arm around her shoulders, leaning in close.
Rose snorted and turned away, gulping down one of the shots the bar tender just set down"Well, you do look the more criminal kind and any way, how do you know I'm from the north?"
"You sound like it," he replied, a little confused.
"lots if planets have a north," she paused as she took the other shot of vodka, "and thanks for the drink but your going to have..." She trailed off as the doors of the bar opened and a sickeningly familiar smell of bad breath and the sound of loud farting entered filled the bar.
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